A nonagenarian connects with a grieving young woman over the lie that she’s a Holocaust survivor in Scarlet Johannsen’s fine-enough directing debut, the June Squibb drama Eleanor the Great.
Tag Archives: Drama
Growing Pains (2025)
Two childhood best friends enter high school, and new things crop up for both of them, causing issues, heartache, and leading them to discover themselves a bit more in the process.
Contact (1997) [Science Fiction Month]
A female astronomer encounters pushback and restrictions in her race to decipher an alleged message from extraterrestrial life, and I’m turn make contact with them.
Interstellar (2014) [Science Fiction Month]
A father, and former NASA genius, takes to the stars in search of a new home planet for humanity, leaving behind his children and inadvertently finding out about the unbreakable bond that is love.
The Ugly (2025) [TIFF 2025]
What begins as a simple story of discovery soon unravels into a haunting portrait of memory, shame, and the truths we inherit from family.
Crying on Command (short) (2025)
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey [2025]
Two single adults connect through a magical trip of self-reflection in the sloppy schmaltzly slog of Kogonada’s A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.